Improvement in ice-floats



Improvement in ice-Floats.

940,126,107, i PatentedApril23,1872.

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A'rEN'r Orrrcn LOUIS TOWN SEND, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

IMPROVENI ENT IN ICE-FLOATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,107, dated April23, 1872.

Specification describing a newr andl'mprovcd Ice-Float, invented byLOUIS TOWNSEND, of Terre Haute., in the county of Vigo and State ofIndiana.

Figure l is :t top view of my improved icefloat. Fig. 2 is a. side viewof the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved device foriloating blocks of ice to the flume or elevator for storing it, andwhich shall be simple in construction and convenient in use, enablingthe blocks to be iioated to the desired place much more expeditiouslythan 1 is possible When the ordinary means are employed; and it consistsin the device constructed as hereinafter more fully described.

The device is formed in three Sections, hinged or pivoted to each other,as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Each section consists of a top bar, A, abottom bar, B, and a series of rounds, C, by which the bars A B areconnected to each other, somewhat in the manner of an or dinary ladder.The central section should be made twelve feet, more or less, in length,and the end sections are made about half as long. To the free end ofeach of the end sections is attached one end of a rope, D, Which ropes Dshould be made of at` convenient length.

In using the device, it is put around one or more of the blocks of iceto be floated, and the men, by means of the ropes D, readily and quicklyiioat it to the desired place;

Havingthus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patenty The device A B C D, constructed substantiztlly asherein shown and described, to adapt it for iioating ice, as 'set forth.LOUIS TOWN SEND.

Witnesses Jnnns T. GRAHAM, T. B. MosHER.

